RE: [flexcoders] Typecast a generic Object into a VO

[Peter Farland]

Nope, an instance must actually be of a particular type in order to coerce it to that type.   Try adding metadata to your class:   [RemoteClass(alias="TestVO")] public class TestVO { }   The MXML compiler will generate the correct code to register an alias for the TestVO class as "TestVO" and thus create actual instances of TestVO on deserializing a response.   Also note that the as operator does not throw an exception if the instance is not of the correct type - instead it will just return null. If you want an exception you need to use casting syntax:   var typeCastTry:TestVO = TestVO(RETURN_OBJ);   Pete From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mdoberenz Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 10:41 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Typecast a generic Object into a VO I'm pretty sure this is possible, but I can't get it to work. I'm wanting to typecast a generic object that gets returned by a WebService call into a VO, but I'm having some issues. Say I have a VO of the following: public class TestVO{ [Bindable] public var i_test:int; [Bindable] public var s_test:String; [Bindable] public var o_test:Object; } Then I get an object back from a WebService call that has a similar structure, can't I just do the following?: var typeCastTry:TestVO = RETURN_OBJ as TestVO; When I do this, typeCastTry gets set to null. Any help would be awesome! Mark __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Software development tool Software development Software development services Home design software Software development company Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___